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What it costs to live in Hawkesbury, NSW
Hawkesbury council area, New South Wales. About 69,299 people lived here in 2025. Here's what rent, power, fuel, the pokies and crime look like, and how each one sits against the rest of New South Wales.
Rent
$680
A week. That's the median rent on new leases in the June quarter 2026.
Pokies losses
$1,049
Lost for every resident in a year. That's about the NSW average.
See pokies losses in HawkesburyElectricity
$2,328
A year on the default offer in the Endeavour Energy network area, for 4,900 kWh. That's the most a standing offer can cost. A typical plan here costs $2,095.
See electricity pricesUnleaded petrol
191c
A litre, on average, at 27 stations here over the year to September 2026. That's about the NSW average.
See when fuel is cheapestCrime police recorded
Violent crime, 2025–26
Police recorded 690 of these in Hawkesbury. That's 1,004 for every 100,000 people, or 85% of the NSW average. Five years before, in 2020–21, it was 954, so it has gone up 5%.
See each year
| Year | Recorded | Per 100,000 | NSW per 100,000 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025–26 | 690 | 1,004 | 1,183 |
| 2024–25 | 773 | 1,125 | 1,171 |
| 2023–24 | 804 | 1,170 | 1,156 |
| 2022–23 | 704 | 1,033 | 1,084 |
| 2021–22 | 626 | 922 | 981 |
| 2020–21 | 645 | 954 | 1,055 |
| 2019–20 | 573 | 850 | 1,009 |
| 2018–19 | 605 | 899 | 1,008 |
| 2017–18 | 644 | 961 | 999 |
| 2016–17 | 579 | 868 | 1,000 |
Property crime, 2025–26
Police recorded 793 of these in Hawkesbury. That's 1,154 for every 100,000 people, or 71% of the NSW average. Five years before, in 2020–21, it was 981, so it has gone up 18%.
See each year
| Year | Recorded | Per 100,000 | NSW per 100,000 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025–26 | 793 | 1,154 | 1,622 |
| 2024–25 | 791 | 1,151 | 1,589 |
| 2023–24 | 755 | 1,099 | 1,651 |
| 2022–23 | 633 | 929 | 1,572 |
| 2021–22 | 553 | 815 | 1,381 |
| 2020–21 | 663 | 981 | 1,544 |
| 2019–20 | 830 | 1,231 | 1,826 |
| 2018–19 | 1,035 | 1,538 | 2,022 |
| 2017–18 | 980 | 1,463 | 2,066 |
| 2016–17 | 1,211 | 1,816 | 2,184 |
This is crime that police recorded in the area over a year, July to June. Lots of crime is never reported, and a rise can mean police are looking harder, not just that more crime happened. Each state counts crime its own way, so only compare a council with its own state.
Suburbs in Hawkesbury
Who lives in each one, their homes and how they get around.
- Agnes Banks (part)
- Berambing (part)
- Bilpin
- Blaxlands Ridge
- Bligh Park
- Bowen Mountain
- Cattai (part)
- Central Colo
- Central Macdonald
- Clarendon
- Colo (Hawkesbury - NSW)
- Colo Heights
- Cornwallis
- Cumberland Reach
- East Kurrajong
- Ebenezer
- Fernances
- Freemans Reach
- Glossodia
- Grose Vale
- Grose Wold
- Higher Macdonald
- Hobartville
- Kurmond
- Kurrajong
- Kurrajong Heights
- Kurrajong Hills
- Leets Vale (part)
- Lower Macdonald
- Lower Portland (part)
- Maraylya (part)
- McGraths Hill
- Mellong
- Mogo Creek
- Mountain Lagoon
- Mulgrave
- North Richmond
- Oakville
- Perrys Crossing
- Pitt Town
- Pitt Town Bottoms
- Richmond
- Richmond Lowlands
- Sackville
- Scheyville
- South Windsor
- St Albans
- Ten Mile Hollow
- Tennyson
- The Devils Wilderness
- The Slopes
- Upper Colo
- Upper Macdonald
- Vineyard (part)
- Webbs Creek
- Wheeny Creek
- Wilberforce
- Windsor
- Windsor Downs
- Wisemans Ferry (part)
- Womerah
- Wrights Creek
- Yarramundi
Look further
- Rents across Australia: what tenants really pay by suburb and postcode.
- Pokies losses by council: where the most is lost, in four states.
- Fuel prices: the price cycle and the cheapest day to fill up.
- Compare Hawkesbury with another area, side by side.
- Look up another area.
Sources: recorded crime, NSW Bureau of Crime Statistics and Research. Population: Australian Bureau of Statistics, Regional population, CC BY 4.0. Pokies losses: the state's gambling regulator (see the pokies page for its credit). Rent: state rental bond data (see the rent pages). Electricity: Default Market Offer 2026–27: © Commonwealth of Australia (Australian Energy Regulator), CC BY 4.0; retailers' plans under the Consumer Data Right. Fuel: NSW Government FuelCheck, CC BY-SA, so the fuel figure can be reused under the same licence.